Fiona Woolf CBE—University of Law

Fiona Woolf CBE, one of the UK’s most respected corporate lawyers and the new lord mayor of the City of London, is to become the University of Law’s first chancellor.

Lord Mayor Woolf will take office in November 2014 at the end of her one-year term as lord mayor, which began on 8 November. She is an alumnus of the university and was appointed as the university’s chancellor designate following a nomination process in which students, staff, alumni and members of the legal profession and legal education community were invited to suggest names of suitable people. With a 40-year career in corporate practice she is a partner at CMS Cameron McKenna specialising in electricity reforms and infrastructure projects. 

Fiona says: “I am delighted and honoured to serve as the University of Law’s first chancellor. I have followed their success over the years with great pride and I am looking forward to engaging with the students and assisting the university in its role of supporting the success of our law firms in the domestic and global market for legal service provision and responding to the new challenges of creating more flexible routes to qualification.”